Matt_Caulfield comments on The raw-experience dogma: Dissolving the “qualia” problem - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Matt_Caulfield 14 September 2012 05:33:12AM 7 points [-]

A philosophers’ version is the “inverted spectrum”: how do I know you see “red” rather than “blue” when you see this red print?

That's a typo, right? It's blue print.

Comment author: Pentashagon 18 September 2012 06:41:54PM 3 points [-]

While humorous, this is actually a specious argument. We can agree to call light between 450–495 nm "blue" and light between 620–750 nm "red" and in fact most of us do. The real question is whether, despite our labels, we feel the experience of those wavelengths quite differently, in ways we can't adequately express via language.